GOVERNMENT:
- President:--------------------------------- Jose' Eduardo dos Santos
- Prime Minister: ----------------------------- Paulo Kassoma
- Independence:----------- Independence from Portugal in Nov. 11, 1975
GEOGRAPHY:
- Location:------------------------------------ Southern Africa
- Natural Resources:----------- Diamonds, Gold, Petroleum, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, bauxite, uranium
- Area: --------------------- 1,246,700 sq.km : 481,354 sq mi
- Capital City: ----------------------------- Luanda
- Capital city (Est. pop.):------------------ 2,081,000
PEOPLE:
- Population: ----------------------------- 12,864,512
- Literacy:------------------ 42% (males:56%, females:28%)
- Languages:----------------- Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African Languages
- Monitary unit:--------------- Kwanza
- Official languages:------------------- Bantu , Portuguese
- Economy:------------ diamonds and oil exports
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth Rate:----------------------- 44.11 (per 1,000 population)
- Death Rate:---------------------- 17.24 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality Rate:----------- 135.7 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
- Fertility Rate:------------------ 6.27 (per woman)
- Life Expectancy at Birth:
- total population: 47.32 (Males:45.12, Females:49.64)
ECONOMY:
- GDP:------ purchasing power parity - $8.3 billion (1996)
- GDP real growth rate :------- 9%
- GDP per capita:------- $700
- Inflation Rate: ---------------- (Consumer prices): 1,700% (1996)
- National Budget:
- Revenues:-------------- $928 million
- Expenditures:-------------- $2.5 billion
- External Debt:------------ $12.5 billion
- Currency:---------------- 1 new kwanza = 100 lwei
- Labor Force:------------- 2.783 million
- Unemployment Rate:------------ (extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population) (1994).
- Agriculture:-------------- Bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn(maize), cotton, manioc(tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish.
- Industries:----------------- Petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco; sugar; textiles; cement; basic metal products.
- Exports:---------------------- $4 billion
- Commodities:--- Oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish, and fish products, timber, cotton.
- Imports:------------------- $1.7 billion
- Commodities:--- Capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), food, vehicals and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines, substantial military deliveries.
- DEFENCE:
Defence Expenditures:------------- exchange rate conversion - $1.1 billion, 31% of GDP
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